Fidesz

Fidesz is a conservative political party in Hungary, founded on 30 March 1988 as a libertarian political party. The party was founded by anti-communist and pro-democracy student activists who met in secret, and it had an upper age limit of 35 until the 1993 congress abolished the age cap. The youth movement would evolve into a powerful conservative party, winning 8.5% of the vote in 1990 and 29.48% in 1998. In 1994, Fidesz ceased to be a liberal party and turned into a conservative party, and Viktor Orban was elected Prime Minister in 1998, serving from 1998 to 2002 before regaining power in 2010, with Fidesz holding a two-thirds majority in the National Assembly. The party advocated anti-immigration stances, Hungarian nationalism, and classical liberalism and turned a blind eye to anti-Semitism, instead throwing its hatred at the European Union. In April 2017, the party held 114/199 National Assembly seats, 11/21 European Parliament seats, and 245/419 County Assembly seats.